THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012
We left the Athens Dock at 7:20 a.m. The rain from last night is still
beating down, but now that we have an enclosed pilothouse and even a windshield
wiper the rain doesn’t bother us.
I’m going to apologize for the quality of
the photos already. Since it
rained on and off all day, some pictures that I wanted to take are OK and some are not. It was just a yucky, dreary day
weather-wise. These pictures of
the mountains show the dark clouds that were dropping rain on us and then the
white clouds around the base of the mountains.
The scenery today was of houses nestled in
the woods
and trees and more trees on cliffs.
You can tell why our ride is so bumpy today
by looking at this sailboat heeling over in the wind. I think we counted 9 people on the boat. I’d hate to have to rescue all of them
if they got in trouble out in this wind.
The wind is against the current causing
short waves that make us bump along. As soon as Gary turns on the windshield wiper to get the spray off the
windshield, we hit another wave.
The water splashes up on the
windshield again and again. The cycle keeps on going. Water, wiper, water, wiper on and on.
The weather doesn't look horrible now, but it was supposed to be extremely bad
weather later in the afternoon so we stopped early at Norrie Point Marina
again. We tried to find the best
places to stop on the way up so we will be stopping at most of the same
places on the way back home. We
traveled 5 hours and 29 minutes covering 32 miles. Our total mileage now is 2355 miles.
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